Board Ambition

[Wartman]

As a matter of interest, what ambition do you want them to have. Realistically. You mention Fleetwood as having similar resources to us. Really? Didn't they have someone investing significant money into the club? How many managers have they had in the last 5 seasons? And where has this got them? Is that ambition?

For me, the boards ambition should be to do whatever it needs for us to have a club to support. Bury had ambition and they are now gone. Crewe Alexandra are a League 1/League 2 club and will ever be thus. Partly because the fan base doesn't stack up to anything much higher. I seem to remember rarely filling the ground when we were in the 2nd tier so that says much about the club and its supporters.
I am not for one minute suggesting that we should be content with the current situation surround the success (or lack of) of the team. However, I have a lot of sympathy with the management team over the summer recruitment. Thew were dealt a bad hand by a few of our players leaving at the last minute on top of the two signing and then deciding they didn't want to play football any more. The nett outcome of that scenario is one Terril Thomas. We were desperate with limited options and he hadn't got a club. Fortunately he s on a one year deal so not too much damage there. Artell's recruitment in previous seasons has been decent at least and many were heralding the signings before this season started so I think we must show some patience and understanding of the situation and recognise we are not Bury or Fleetwood or any other similar club with "ambition"

I am a little surprised you stopped at Thomas what about

Macfazdean (useless defender)
Gomes Dreadful full stop
Bennett one trick pony extremely limited quickly sussed out by defenders
Knight not ready for mens football
McDonald before his retirement looked absolutely useless

So my point is the lack of ambition shown by the board to provide such low funds that honest hardworking fans are having to pay to watch such a poor standard of football. It is of great credit to Crewe that the best players in the current first team are mainly academy graduates.

On a plus point also Robertson and Ramsey were decent loan additions however I would rather see Travis Johnson at Right Back when he is fit.

I would prefer seeing our young players in the first team than watching the washed up has been mercenaries the club has been forced to recruit due to under investment in the first team.

[jimmyboldon]

I am a little surprised you stopped at Thomas what about

Macfazdean (useless defender)
Gomes Dreadful full stop
Bennett one trick pony extremely limited quickly sussed out by defenders
Knight not ready for mens football
McDonald before his retirement looked absolutely useless

So my point is the lack of ambition shown by the board to provide such low funds that honest hardworking fans are having to pay to watch such a poor standard of football. It is of great credit to Crewe that the best players in the current first team are mainly academy graduates.

On a plus point also Robertson and Ramsey were decent loan additions however I would rather see Travis Johnson at Right Back when he is fit.

I would prefer seeing our young players in the first team than watching the washed up has been mercenaries the club has been forced to recruit due to under investment in the first team.

Agree.